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Killing Kirk sure did put that Epstein shit way over to the side. Hmm...
The Newspaper the Country Needs.
Honestly great article that summarizes my thoughts on this exactly. I live in the south and I am seeing a lot of people I really respect lose their fucking minds about this and start frothing at the mouth mourning this guy that they didn't know existed two weeks ago because all they know was that he was a "Christian activist" shot for his beliefs, either not realizing or not caring that the dude was racist as fuck and spent his whole life being a right wing internet troll but in real life.
Several of my colleagues did the same thing and I told them I have zero sympathy because Josef Goebbels and Heinrich Himmler had children too.
Also didn't Goebbels poison his own children before he and his wife commit suicide?
The added "correction" at the bottom is gold. Im glad someone, somewhere, didnt pull punches. The media response to this has been sickening.
And got paid lottery jackpot sums at age 31
The best thing about events like this is it helps me identify more or less trustworthy news sources by how they react to it. The Luigi case culled many
The nation seems to be the only big paper with any rationality.
more articles like this should include the bit about how "[Biden should get the death penalty]"
the dude openly stated that a political figure he disagreed with should be killed. the right must acknowledge this statement while they whitewash his legacy of hate.
Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.
lol
Who also killed all of them than let them live in postwar Germany...
*rather than
Full sentence for anyone who is confused by the comment:
It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”
Heinrich Himmler too and his fucking Naz daughter believed in the asswipe until her death.
And like any loving father, when faced with defeat, he murdered them all
then he had them all killed....because of shame. HA!
This is the only sane reaction to the situation by any media outlet I have seen so far
Every civilized country on earth has figured out that there needs to be acceptable limits to free speech and that freedom of speech does not equal freedom from the consequences of saying something.
freedom from the consequences of saying something.
Freedom of speech in the US protects you from consequences from the government, not anyone or anything else. You can still get fired, or at, for your free speech.
s/at/shot ?
"It is rude of me to say all of this, because we live in a culture where manners are often valued more than truth." This is a really good quote actually
Except that it's not entirely accurate. The right in particular only believes in manners on the left. They are perfectly comfortable saying truly vile shit, then feigning moral outrage if they get a tenth of the same energy back. The Alt-Right Playbook sums it up neatly: "You Go High, We Go Low."
Except that this generally applies to life and not just politics. Another thing is that a lot of times it is the left that imposes this on their own and not even the right.
I do not believe anyone should be murdered because of their views, but that is because I don’t believe people should be murdered generally, regardless of who they are or what they’ve done. I am against the death penalty, pro–gun control, and believe war is a failure of humanity, not a necessary byproduct of it. Kirk was fine with murder as long the right people were dying.
Well said, but I'd be lying if I said I didn't enjoy a bit of schadenfreude at his passing.
specifically, pleasure from his death, or pleasure that he is no longer alive?
the angry right wingers on the internet seem unable to understand the difference between the two
More that I won't have to hear any of his nonsense any more. Even the people eulogising him don't seem to be actually quoting him because they can't find anything he ever said that wasn't stupid.
see that's perfectly valid. how he died is irrelevant to that feeling.
Well-written and surprisingly thoughtful commentary given the heat so far